Topic: What is a HIPS?

[mikey]

We haven't employed conventional signature scanners(anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-trojan, anti-anything) for many years. Nothing initiates on any of our sys without admin knowledge and approval. "If it can't initiate, it can't infect."

I found this to be a very good layman's explanation; http://www.emsisoft.com/en/kb/articles/tec120710/

[Samker]

We haven't employed conventional signature scanners(anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-trojan, anti-anything) for many years. Nothing initiates on any of our sys without admin knowledge and approval. "If it can't initiate, it can't infect."

I found this to be a very good layman's explanation; http://www.emsisoft.com/en/kb/articles/tec120710/

Great article for all Scforum's newbies, thanks Mike.